All beauty is sad. For it fades.

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

Erskine Bowles

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Eric Hoffer

Men are blind in their own cause.

Heywood Broun

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

Phil Keoghan

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

Christiane Amanpour

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

Doug Coupland

Why aren't we making any progress towards a crime-free society? We're not making progress because we are too damn busy making excuses.

Source Unknown

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Jeremy Irons

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

Seth Rogen

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

Lewis H. Lapham

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Charles Dickens